The Best Way to Get From Here to There
Walt pits old reliable MapQuest against Google Local and an enhanced version of Yahoo Maps. Though the newer online mapping services have some fancy features, MapQuest still does the best job.
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How Your Cellphone May Beat Computers As a Dating Service
Cellphones are becoming devices not only for reaching people you know but for reaching people you don’t know — yet.
Increasingly powerful and Web-enabled, the latest phones can do email, video, music, photo sharing and Web surfing. It was inevitable that popular online services such as “social networking” sites would find a home on cellphones as [...]
IM Services Offer Alternative to Phones, But Are No Bargains
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All over the world, consumers are turning to the Internet for phone service. Companies like Skype Technologies and Vonage Holdings have been marketing inexpensive, even free, calls. Now, Internet giants like Google and Yahoo, and software manufacturer Microsoft are upgrading their services and features to win the same customers.
Instant-messaging services [...]
Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing Consumers’ Activities
The beauty of digital media is the flexibility, Walt argues, and that flexibility shouldn’t be destroyed for honest consumers just because the companies that sell them have a theft problem caused by a minority of people.
The Practical Case Against File Sharing
Walt answers questions about getting viruses from file-swapping services, other options beyond dial-up Internet access, and buying a Mac desktop computer.
A Screen Test For the Video iPod
Walt finds that Apple’s new iPod is an excellent music player and a surprisingly decent video player. In essence, he writes, this iPod’s video capability is kind of a business or social experiment.
What PC to Buy If You Are Planning On a Vista Upgrade
In Walt’s annual fall buyer’s guide to desktop computers, he focuses on what kind of PC Windows buyers should be considering if they want to run Microsoft’s next version of Windows, called Vista.
Downloading Email at Work and Home
This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about downloading email to both home and work computers, the differences in Treo models and transferring files between Windows systems.
Behind the Wheel With an iPod
Walt tests a new, modestly priced, supposedly simple, iPod auto accessory that aims to ease the distraction problem for those who try to navigate their iPod library while navigating the roads.
Surfin U.S.A.
For years Americans who accessed the Internet via cell phone networks looked across the ocean to Europe with envy. The speed of American cell phone networks badly trailed those in Europe.
But not anymore. Gradually, and with relatively little fanfare, Verizon Wireless has deployed a nationwide cellular data network in the United States that blows away [...]
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